Currents

The year ahead looks like another strong year for financings, but with uncertainty around supply chains, inflation, potential tax law changes and import tariffs. The yield on the 10-year Treasury bond is up significantly so far in January, repeating a pattern early last year. The Federal Reserve is expected to start raising interest rates as early as March.
Listen to a discussion about what to expect in the year ahead for tax equity, bank and term loan B debt and project bonds, led by Keith Martin from Norton Rose Fulbright, among John C.S. Anderson, global head of corporate finance and infrastructure at Manulife, Jack Cargas, managing director and head of originations on the tax equity desk at Bank of America, Ralph Cho, global co-head of the power and infrastructure group at Investec, Max Lipkind, managing director and head of Americas leveraged finance origination at Credit Suisse, and Rubiao Song, managing director and head of energy investments at JPMorgan.

Keith Martin, partner at Norton Rose Fulbright in Washington, joins us to discuss investment tax credits (ITCs) for energy storage and provide an update on the current tax equity market. We get into how current ITCs apply to energy storage, what happens if you have a battery that is only partially charged by a renewables project, why an ITC for an energy storage project doesn’t work well with wind farms claiming PTCs, whether the storage and wind or solar projects have to have the same owner, what he expects to see happen with the Build Back Better bill, how the overall market is different in 2022 and much more.

Ep203: Transferability of Tax Credits
Hilary Lefko, partner in Washington, joins Todd Alexander to discuss the transferability of tax credits. We discuss how federal transferability compares to the existing market for sales of state tax credits, how developers are taking advantage of transferability, how lenders look at it, what the market looks like for brokers, what has surprised Hilary about the market’s adoption of transferability, the timeline for the issuance of guidance and more.

Sheldon Kimber, CEO and co-founder of Intersect Power, joins us to discuss the $2.6 billion financing facility that Intersect signed in November 2021 to finance a portfolio of late-stage solar and storage projects in California and Texas. We get into Intersect’s $600 million equity raise last year, Sheldon’s openness to merchant risk, the sacrifices that need to be made when the company structures these deals, where he sees the energy storage market going and more.

Jeff Hendler, CEO of Logical Buildings, and our host Todd Alexander discuss the Climate Mobilization Act, what it is and how it affects the CRE and energy industries, how the statute is being implementedacross various building types and what opportunities it creates for investors and property owners.